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Following the stabilization of the integer log10 interface in Rust 1.67, I got interested in seeing whether it could be optimized. There's well known lore in this area starting from the omnipresent Hackers Delight implementation, to more recent thoughts...

 A recent blog post asked "Does C++ still deserve its bad rap?"
While that title presumes the answer (after all, a "bad rap" implies that the judgement is undeserved), I think C++'s reputation for making it very difficult to achieve security or memory safety or thread-safety remains well-deserved, even though it...

 This is #4 in the series of how we can tolerate the pandemic in a lot of slow, steady progress and hard work.  As a quick recap, the first post laid out a bit of a roadmap (March 23, 2020); the second (April 17, 2020) and third (June 26, 2020) noted...

In two previous posts, I discussed some ongoing processes that will help us tolerate the pandemic better, and an update 3 weeks after the first.
It's been two months, which is enough time for more progress to have happened.  There hasn't been enough, and some things have had less progress than I've hoped for, but we've also seen a bit more progress in other areas.  Let's stick with the same framework...